Hi Craig,

No luck unfortunately.

I downloaded BackupPC 3.2.0 and ran ./configure. After answering all the 
questions and restarting BackupPC I see it says it is in fact version 3.2.

After running the backup on that same host I get the same error:

2010-09-03 13:19:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative numbers in pack 
at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 302.

Different line number though - probably because its updated now.

Info on system now after upgrade:

File-RsyncP-0.70
perl 5.8.8
BackupPC 3.2.0

Thanks in advance,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Barratt" <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
> To: "Garith Dugmore" <garith AT saao.ac DOT za>
> Cc: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Sent: Thursday, 2 September, 2010 7:51:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at 
> <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295
> Garith,
> 
> > As the subject suggestions I'm getting an error on a host I'm
> > attempting to backup. The exact error as it stands in the error log
> > shows (server name removed):
> >
> > 2010-09-01 12:08:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative
> > numbers in pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line
> > 295.
> > 2010-09-01 12:08:35 Backup failed on <serverhostname> (Child exited
> > prematurely)
> >
> > I found the following post from 2004 ->
> > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-03/msg00066.html
> > and the solution was to change file
> > File-RsyncP-0.46/FileList/FileList.xs. I checked this file on my
> > system and it already has those changes.
> 
> I'm not sure of the root cause, but in BackupPC 3.2.0 there is a
> fix to make sure this is a non-fatal error. The fix was to wrap
> the unpack in an eval().
> 
> Craig

-- 

Garith Dugmore



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